Artists At Work

Artists At Work (AAW) is THE OFFICE performing arts + film's workforce resilience program in the spirit of the WPA that is designed to support communities through artistic civic engagement.

Artists At Work (AAW) leverages the power and creativity of artists to respond to local community needs across a range of issues including mental health, antiracism, environmental justice and climate resiliency, substance abuse recovery, and youth welfare. Each AAW Artist is paired with a participating cultural organization and paid a living wage salary to do two things: to continue to make art, and to be embedded in a local social impact initiative that will benefit from their skills and creative thinking. The idea is to give stable employment to artists -- so they can keep being artists -- and simultaneously integrate their creative problem solving into the local ecosystem so that communities can move together towards a more sustainable and just future.